By Jason Huffman

'Offshore trawlers from the Russian Federation have access to thousands of tons of quota a year in the NAFO zone, including redfish, turbot and skate' -- Ryan Cleary, SEA-NL

'I've had to tell [potential Russian customers] recently, keep me on your list of people, but we're not going to be doing anything with you right now' -- Richard Hall, Browne Trading Company

Regulators in the US state want to limit licenses because they feel too many fishermen are harvesting menhaden, and that has raised the possibility of overfishing

By Nick Sambides Jr.

'The map is changing everything and putting everybody on high alert. This is just taking it up a notch' -- Tim Novotny, spokesman, Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission

The crew of the cutter Bailey Barco reported finding 18 halibut and one lingcod when they boarded the 38-foot vessel named Competition off the coast of Kodiak

By Tom Seaman

Business as usual, for now, say sources close to Norebo Holding, Russia's largest quota holder and major exporter of cod, haddock, pollock and pelagic fish

By Jason Huffman

Massachusetts companies should be 'processing American Alaskan pollock, not the authoritarian pollock of Russia' -- Alaska senator Dan Sullivan

The funding came as part of Canada's Pacific Integrated Commercial Fisheries Initiative, fisheries and oceans minister Joyce Murray said.

This week's protest follows another in the port city of Gwadar in December, against trawling by Chinese fishing trawlers and vessels from Sindh

The fund would have been designed to help the industry challenge rules and regulations intended to protect the North Atlantic right whale